Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.

Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

Buildings are forms of performances.

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

When I was little, I just was very tuned in to the functionality and aesthetics of things around me.

I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

I've got a furniture range with my wife, and I want to get into designing hotels and restaurants as well. We've got a big studio in Victoria and a showroom in Belgravia. I've always been interested in architecture.

I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?'

I am involved in the architecture of space.

I just want to build the best buildings. It's not about me, it's about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and marvel in beauty and nature.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.

I think fashion and artistry go hand in hand.